Brain Teasers thread. Keep them coming
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A woman gets into a lift on the 1st floor (American counting.) When it stops on the 7th floor, she realises her husband has died and breaks down crying. How'd she know?
There is no 7th floor in this building.
She had actually died, and having been dead and seeing her husband, she knew her husband was dead too.
They had a child, so she is crying for the child who no longer has parents.
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This goes against what PJH wrote.
So it does. [spoiler]Given that time she could have pressed the emergency button and stopped the lift before it killed him. Therefore, I must conclude she intended to kill him. Given that, she might have just strangled him in the lift.[/spoiler]
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A man walks into a restaurant and orders albatross soup. He takes one taste, runs outside, and kills himself
He was already suicidal, but he was also hungry.
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th spoilers is a cl
I like how that had a halo but wasn't actually blurred. Discofail!
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A woman gets into a lift on the 1st floor (American counting.) When it stops on the 7th floor, she realises her husband has died and breaks down crying. How'd she know?
[spoiler]Her husband was lying dead on the floor in the hallway.[/spoiler]
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I like how that had a halo but wasn't actually blurred. Discofail!
That's an old [spoiler]Discofeature[/spoiler].
What about the [spoiler]inside-out version[/spoiler]? It looks different from a normal spoiler in the preview window, but the underline may not show up in the actual post.
Hanzo: It sure doesn't.
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That's an old Discofeature.
Yeah, but as I have mentioned once or twice I wasn't reading this forum until after most of these were discovered, so I don't know about a lot of them.
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This thread reminds me of a game show that I'm now addicted to:
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On a different note: [spoiler]is it annoying[/spoiler] to have [spoiler]a topic[/spoiler] where [spoiler]every post is rife[/spoiler] with [spoiler]spoiler tags[/spoiler]?
If you want the evil ideas thread, you know where to find it.
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I'll just be getting my coat, shall I?
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He was standing on the roof the lift (fixing or retrieving something perhaps) and she accidentally pressed the button for the top floor.
Hey, I too watched Mission:Impossible just the other day...
Also, there's a whole game based out of this. We had a lot of fun playing it.
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Crushing people with elevators?
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SHUT UP DISCOTOASTER!
Ahem. Just found this riddle on a Polish news page:
Andrew and Bernard meet each other after several years:
B: Hi, how are you?
A: Oh, good, good, life's great, I have three beautiful daughters! And all of them have their birthday today, how cool is that?
B: Really? How old are they?
A: Take a guess! I'll only tell you that the product of their ages is 36.
B: Hmm... I don't know, I need a hint.
A: Okay, the sum of their ages is equal to the number of windows in the building outside.
B: *looks out of the window* Nope, sorry, I still don't know.
A: Okay, so: the oldest one is a brunette, and the younger ones are blondes.
B: Oh, now I know!
How old are Andrew's daughters?
Solution:
[spoiler]The daughters all share the birthday, so their ages are natural numbers. The first hint is that the product is 36, so we can obviously list several possibilities:
(1,1,36)(1,2,18)(1,3,12)(1,4,9)(1,6,6)(2,2,9)(2,3,6)(3,3,4)
The next hint is the sum. We don't get the amount, but since Bernard still doesn't know after that hint, we can rule out the unique sums. That leaves us with (1,6,6) and (2,2,9), which both sum to 13.
Then Andrew says that the oldest one is a brunette. Since in case of (1,6,6) there's no oldest daughter, that leaves us with (2,2,9), which is the solution.[/spoiler]
Filed under: inb4 Andrew's an asshole
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A woman gets into a lift on the 1st floor (American counting.) When it stops on the 7th floor, she realises her husband has died and breaks down crying. How'd she know?
He actually died a month ago, and she's been subject to uncontrollable crying fits every time she thinks about it ever since.
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Ugh. Poorly written. Has to be PIXEL PERFECT on the target. I solved the third puzzle, but it wouldn't count the solution because apparently one of my circles was off by 3 microns.
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Poorly written. Has to be PIXEL PERFECT on the target.
That's not "poorly written"; that's the puzzle.
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That's not "poorly written"; that's the puzzle.
The circles were covering the targets so thoroughly that I couldn't tell WHICH of them was (apparently) misaligned. So I had no idea: 1) why that wasn't a win, 2) what I did wrong, 3) how else I could have done it better.
I call that poorly written. You can call it what you like.
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I was able to get it bang-on with no problem. Maybe you did it wrong?
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Maybe you did it wrong?
Maybe, but without any useful feedback what am I supposed to do about that? Just sit there and dick-away at the puzzle 4673 times until I just happen to luck-into the "right" solution? Or close the window and come here to complain about the poorly-written game?
I chose the latter.
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Maybe you did it wrong?
But if so then it should be off enough that you can see the wrong rather than looking right. Course this means trying lots of almost rights to make sure they line up badly enough to be obvious.
Edit: by blakey
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How many pushes was your solution to level 3?
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How many pushes was your solution to level 3?
According to the game I didn't solve it at all. Also: I don't remember.
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At this point, if I were you and you were me, you'd be calling me a liar.
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I'm lying about not remembering how many circles I clicked in a web game I played for about 75 seconds?
Why the fuck would I lie about that?
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Ask hypothetical blakey. It's his accusation, not mine.
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I get utterly stuck on level 5...
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I agree with blakey on this:
Some of the puzzles in the game rely too much on pixel-perfection. (I played the first 16ish or so)And sometimes imperfect solutions actually do get counted.
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And some of the shoving about seems too random.
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There are a few levels you can complete more or less by brute force and joggling, but there's generally a cleaner way with fewer steps.
For me, level 22 was the first one where the only solution I could find felt like it worked strictly by luck.
Oh, and level 35 is a shit of a thing. So many ways to get it nearly but not quite right.
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Or close the window and come here to complain about the poorly-written game?
Did you try clicking the Help button?
No, really, go ahead, because you'll love it.
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Did you try clicking the Help button?
No, really, go ahead, because you'll love it.
Wow that is shitty. Glad I was curious enough to actually reopen and try.
For those that can't be bothered: [spoiler]here is a link to share on social media, after enough new users try from your link we will tell you[/spoiler]
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Did you try clicking the Help button?
No, really, go ahead, because you'll love it.
@flabdablet, you clever bastard.
I wonder if the game actually checks the positions, or if there's simply a single correct sequence of moves.
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It checks the positions AFAICT; I've solved several of the puzzles using monstrously excessively long sequences before working out the short way.
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Got stuck at level 6. And by stuck, I mean I tried it for 30 seconds and gave up.
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